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This will make every astronomer cringe.

Started by ks1u, 11/12/2012 02:42PM
Posted 11/12/2012 02:42PM | Edited 11/12/2012 02:50PM Opening Post
How could all the people involved in filming a TV commercial get this so completely wrong?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWmhk6PbUDM
Posted 11/12/2012 03:16PM #1
George Blahun said:

How could all the people involved in filming a TV commercial get this so completely wrong?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWmhk6PbUDM

You're right, the lack of diversity in this ad is appalling.

Jim McSheehy
Posted 11/12/2012 03:46PM #2
George Blahun said:

How could all the people involved in filming a TV commercial get this so completely wrong?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWmhk6PbUDM

Because most people don't give a darn about astronomy and telescopes and to the majority of people a telescope has a lens up front and a human at the back. Only us astro-nerds catch (or care about) these things.

Jim J

"Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good." - Thomas Sowell
Posted 11/12/2012 06:59PM #3
LOL. I like how he parked in the road with his headlights on. The aren't gonna get hot pizza with a dead battery.

Why did they use a guy with such a scratchy voice to act in this?